Dave Checketts, the multimillionaire entrepreneur who brought Major League Soccer to Utah and won a heated political fight to get a stadium built in Sandy, has sold his interest in Real Salt Lake to the team’s minority owner Dell Loy Hansen, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.

The deal will be announced Thursday afternoon during a press conference at Rio Tinto Stadium. Checketts, Hansen, MLS Commisioner Don Garber, Sandy Mayor Tom Dolan and Utah Governor Gary Herbert are slated to be at the event, according to a team press release. A team spokesman declined to comment.

Hansen purchased 49 percent of Checketts’ SCP Worldwide’s sports properties in Utah — RSL, the team’s stadium, and ESPN 700 — in November 2009, just days before RSL won the MLS Cup. The move to buy out Checketts comes a year after the team’s founder was named chairman and CEO of Legends Hospitality Management, a concessions, merchandising and ticketing company founded by the New York Yankees, the Dallas Cowboys and Goldman Sachs.

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